Absolutely excellent advice from that blog. Being fat is no indicator of our value, spirit, intellect, or importance to others. Hinging our self worth or even our documented life HISTORY on how we think we look is to miss a lot of beauty. Worse, it robs the people we love of their memories, too, by forcing US (their loved one) out of the frame.

I lost the weight for a lot of good reasons and some mediocre ones. But I never hated myself and never stopped living because I was fat. I was a whole lot more than just that one attribute of my body!

I wish I had seen something like this 5 years ago. I'm sad to think how much of my self worth has been tied to my appearance. I did hide from life, from family, from friends out of shame of how I looked. Utterly ridiculous. I wish I had been more accepting of myself and kinder to myself but the past is done and I can only move forward with the knowledge that I'm so much more than the number on the scale.